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Prime Minister's public servants lay down their arms
Prime Minister and Cabinet public servants finally agree to new workplace deal.
Prime Minister and Cabinet public servants finally agree to new workplace deal.
March of public service casualisation reversed. In one department at least.
Reversal of the Fair Work Commission's decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates in industries including the hospitality and retail sectors could lead to industrial "chaos" and reduce wages to a political "plaything" experts warn.
Another public service agency lays down its arms.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched an investigation into Uber and whether its contracts with tens of thousands of Australian drivers are in breach of federal workplace laws.
Men join company boards with less experience than women do, who often face the old Catch-22: To get chosen to be on a board, they already have to be on a board.
Kirralee Brisbane was always paid a commission for her work fitting hearing aids, but her clients will soon have a say over the size of her pay packet.
"What do you make in your current job?" For women, is there any good answer to that dreaded job-interview question?
Like a theme song for his new commission to catch unions and employer groups involved in corruption, Mark Bielecki's mobile phone went off to the guitar strums of George Thoroughgood's Bad to the Bone.
More pay, less super would be a better deal for bureaucrats and soldiers, expert warns.
Traditional public service life will be consigned to history, Public Service Commissioner warns.
A constant flow of unpaid interns provide free accounting and finance work for businesses, raising questions about whether Fair Work laws need to be tightened.
With the controversial cuts affecting hundreds of thousands of workers due to start taking effect from next weekend, unions are launching a last-minute legal challenge.
A construction company manager has been arrested and charged after allegedly threatening to track down a union safety organiser and saying he would "attack you and your family".
Nation's top public servant now earning nearly $880,000.
Another crash and burn of Tax Office's internet systems with just nine days until tax time.
For nine weeks hundreds of families in a small north-east Victorian town have been without a pay check, after the area's biggest employer locked out its entire workforce in April.
Australia is shedding jobs for retailers and farmers by the tens of thousands as we become a country of carers and builders.
Sorry, millennials, you need not apply. You're not wanted.
Psychopaths may have some advantage in climbing the corporate ladder, but once at the top they do shareholders no favours.
Defence public servants accept a new workplace deal at the fourth time of asking.
Gaming giant Tabcorp's looming merger with Tatts Group could produce a solid boost to earnings, according to analysts from Deutsche Bank.
The way most haters work is to spread damaging but unspecific gossip about you around the workplace.
Older workers once saw informal training as a duty, now it means more work without gratitude
The toughest challenge in a dirty job is recruitment.
Working in a role where you are obliged to work to a system manifestly, even risibly not fit for purpose, most be one of the worst career experiences.
Although there is no standard pathway to this career, there are many success stories.
It's a 'sh*t show', say public servants. It's going great, says the department.
Victorian construction union leader John Setka has threatened to hunt down and "expose" Australian Building and Construction Commission inspectors, warning: "When we come after you, you'd better be careful."
The scenes from The Simpsons are now more than 25 years old, but just as pertinent and potent a workplace metaphor as ever before.
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